Palestinian Compromise Is Reached
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Outside today Inside today Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. Area ... 1-3B, 8C Family.......1-2C Lows tonight in the teens; highs Business .... lOB Obituaries .. lOA Thursday in the low 30s. Outlook: (air Classified .. .6-8B Peopletalk ... 2A Friday and Saturday: chance of flurries Comics........ 9B Sr. Citizens .. 9C Dear Abby ... 9B Sports........ 4-6D Sunday. National weather map on page ^ _ Manchester—A City of Village Charm Editorial __ 4A 7B. _ _i'A(;k s ® .I lIR h h SKfTIOISS . MANCHESTER, CONN., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1978 - VOL. XCVII, No. 79 PRIC^j FIFTEEN CENTS Palestinian compromise 1^ I is reached. - , .9^ ; PARIS (UPI) — President Egyptians chanting “Peace! We Carter arrived today from want peace” The crowds cheered him off with shouts of "long live Egypt where he reached a Carter.” If *’"”-^ 3 compromise solution with As it has on almost every one of the Egyptian President Anwar stops on Carter’e seven-nation, nine- Sadat on the emotional issue of day tour the Middle East a Palestinian homeland and overshadowed other aspects of his visit. suggested that he might be Carter talked with Sadat for only 50 planning a visit to Jerusalem. minutes but in their brief summit Before Carter flew to France today they agreed in principle that the from Aswan, Egypt, reporters with Palestinians should have the right to the presidential party heard Carter self-determination — an apparent tell Sadat, "We cannot let this oppor shift in U.S. policy and one that ran tunity slip away. We will be coming into immediate Israeli ponosition. to Jerusalem, planning to play a very Israeli Prime Minister, Menahem strong role, working closely with you Begin, speaking in Jerusalem after Carter telephoned him from Air Carter, in his second arrival Force One on the flight from Aswan 'ifh ceremony of the day, was greeted by to Paris, said that “self determina French President Valery discard tion means a Palestinian state and d'Estaing who expressed hopes that we will not agree to such a mortal Carter’s two-day visit to the rain danger to Israel.” However, he swept city would lead to a more expressed pleasure that neither brotherly, a more united and a safer Sadat nor Carter mentioned a world. , Palestine state. Carter said in reply that he and his Further evidence of the success of French hosts would seek a common the Carter-Sadat meeting came from answer to a wide series of pressing a high official traveling with' the problems facing the free world. U.S.- Carter party. He said the two agreed French relations are at their highest that a “definition of the principle” of in many years and the two leaders peace by Egypt and Israel is likely to were expected to have few if any dis bring “other Arab nations into the agreements. Middle East peace talks.” Heavy smoke pours out of a home at 41 Earl St. this morning Patty Mayo holds a smoke detector that sounded in the Earl Security precautions in Paris were Carter, looking fit and tanned in as a town firefighter and a volunteer firemen pull hose into the St. home Tuesday. The detector continued to iound as fire especially heavy in the light of a re contrast to the grayness of the day at house. fighters arrived and,fought the fire.. (HeraW photos by Pinto) cent wave of political bombings in time of his arrival, told Giscard that France. Police sharpshooters were Americans “will forever remember stationed all along the highway which the crucial assistance which the presidential motorcade took into Lafayette and the French nation the capital for Carter's ceremonial gave us during the painful and Iron blamed for serious fire laying of a wreath at the Tomb of the dangerous days of our national Unknown Soldier. birth.” By GREG PEARSON plugged it, the iron fell to the ground After the ceremony Carter “It was with the same spirit of the amount of interior damage has hatchway. and a carpet in the room caught fire, declined G iscard’s offer of a common purpose that Americans Herald Reporter not yet been determined, but he said Some neighbors stood on their officials said. it was substantial. limousine and took an unscheduled came to the Normandy beaches and A defective iron apparently front porches in the early-morning Two smoke detectors in the home The basement and first and second cold and watched. Others peered walk down the Champs-Elysee from to the Marne to join France in sparked a fire this morning that were set off and Patty ieft and sought floor sustained smoke damage. The through windows. Several children, the Arch of Triumph, waving and preserving your liberty,” he said. resulted in substantial heat and frequently plunging into the crowd to smoke damage to the George Mayo help from a neighbor. One of the heat of the tire also caused con walking to school, also stopped. Carter will visit Normandy detectors was still sounding when Despite the temperatures in the shake hands. The rain had stopped by Thursday to pay homage to the home at 41 Earl St., Manchester. siderable damage in both the base firefighters arrived and continued then and Carter wore neither hat nor _ Americans and their allies who died The fire was reported to the Town ment and first floor. A telephone on teens, firefighters were not topcoat. Fire Department at 7:38 a.m. Com sunding as they fought the fire. the first floor melted. hampered by the cold. there on D-Day. Two family pets also were in the Security precautions also had been Carter said he and Giscard wili dis panies 2 and 3 responded. Deputy Chief James McKay said The fire produced billows of home, A dog escaped, but a cat was that when firefighters arrived the ■ heavy in Egypt when Carter flew in cuss: According to reports from the Fire smoke, and fans were used to blow it killed in the blaze. A neighbor, Carla fire had worked its way up the cellar out of the house. A couple of fire from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Still he • “ Ensuring the stability and Department, 12-year-old Patty Bovee of 7 Nye St,, cut her finger door and was spreading to the first fighters also entered the home was greeted by several thousand growth of the international economy Mayo, the only one home at the time, breaking a window as she attempted floor carpeting. Firefighters entered wearing air packs. Fire equipment and working for economic justice was starting to iron in the basement. to save the cat. the home through a first-floor side was kept at the scene until about within our own societies and among When she plugged the iron in, it Fire Chief John Rivosa said that entrance and through the cellar 10:30 a.m. the nations of the world. sparked, fire officials said. She un • “Maintaining the defense of our Year reviewed Western nations while constantly The events that made news in searching for peace in troubled areas Manchester during 1977 are such as the Middle East, for im reviewed in a article on page 8A proved relations with the Soviet of today’s Herald. Union and Eastern Europe and for Police station bids rejected —See Page Ten-A By JUNE TOMPKINS said Town Counsel recommended floor. Sartor said he and Lawrence Training Center (ROTC) with un Herald Reporter that all bids which had been sub will explore the possibility of not breakable lens. Dion said the lens It’s back to the drawing board for a mitted be rejected. having to add an additional boiler for break easily during gymnastic activi revised set of plans for the second Paul Philips, building committee the heating system designed in the ty because of the low ceilings. No flu epidemic yet phase of new construction at the chairman, said the best thing to do is original plans. The outside lighting system at Manchester Police station. to see what items can be eliminated Although Lawrence said it will ROTC has been corrected. Dion said The Town Building Committee in the existing plans to reduce the take more than a month to redesign a short circuit was discovered at the but it’s on the way Tuesday night voted to reject all bids project cost by $100,000 and then put the expansion and alteration project, base of one of the parking light poles. which had been submitted for Phase the project out to bid all over again. he said he “will attempt to get the He told the committee there's a lack Two of the federally funded $750,000 A suggestion to ask the Delta new specifications ready for the next of consistency in uniform heat at the The flu epidemic that is appearing this type of flu,” she said, “because project. Funds will be provided from Builders for a revision of their bid building committee meeting,” which school, but “it’s one of those things in Connecticut and in parts of the the health specialists didn’t know a Public Works Employment Act was made by Richard Lawrence, is Feb. 7. we’re going to have to live with, I United States has not yet reached what type of flu to expect this year, grant. architect, but rejected by the com The architect’s and Phase One fees guess,” he said, Manchester. so they used the same type of vaccine Of the eight bids submitted, the ap mittee. for the beginning of the project have Inthe Washington School construc The flu, which is raising havoc with that was used last year.” There is The preparation for new bidding already cost about $100,000.